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A Nova Scotia man has won a $1,050 judgment against Air Canada after he was bumped off a flight and sued the country's largest passenger airline after it refused to compensate him.

In a decision released this week, an adjudicator sided with Dan Lachance in his fight with Air Canada regarding a flight from Halifax to Whitehorse in February.

The court granted Lachance $800 in compensation, an additional $100 in general damages and $150 to cover his court and travel costs.

Lachance, of Waverley, was heading from Halifax to Whitehorse to teach computer classes to corporate clients. He had booked his flights a couple of weeks in advance and Air Canada routed him through Toronto and Vancouver.

In Vancouver — the last leg of his trip — ​Lachance boarded the plane to Whitehorse with a valid boarding pass. But before the plane took off, he was told to get off the flight because the airline had sold the same seat to another passenger.